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title: No sooner did Gelaleddin appear at Bassora, than his virtues and abi… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner did Gelaleddin appear at Bassora, than his virtues and abilities raised him to distinction. Who acts: Gelaleddin, virtues. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora., sentence 2

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No sooner did Gelaleddin appear at Bassora, than his virtues and abilities raised him to distinction.

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**Who acts:** Gelaleddin, virtues · **What happens:** appear, raise · **To what, where:** Bassora, Gelaleddin, distinction

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Gelaleddin of Bassora.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gelaleddin, virtues), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:14:2
# text = No sooner did Gelaleddin appear at Bassora, than his virtues and abilities raised him to distinction.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Gelaleddin	Gelaleddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Bassora	Bassora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	abilities	ability	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past · do-support | Gelaleddin |  |  | Bassora |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bassora=Location |
| 2 | **raise** | past | Bassora's virtues and abilities | Gelaleddin |  | distinction |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to distinction=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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